State of the parish

Usually around this time of the year the President of the United States delivers a State of the Union address. Woodrow Wilson was the first to do so on December 2, 1913. One expects that nowadays a committee and a professional speech writer probably do all the heavy lifting when it comes to that sort of thing and the President himself just reads it and takes credit (or blame) for the result....

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